Greens inciting flag-burners should be booted
Members of the Greens who want to disrupt Australia Day celebrations and encourage people to “steal and burn aus rags” – an obvious reference to the Australian flag – should be expelled from their party.The far left faction of the NSW Greens are actively promoting disruption of our national day of celebration and I call on Greens leader Richard di Natalie to show some spine and expel party members who are encouraging theft and acts of desecration of our national flag.The Greens Left Renewal arm are sharing ideas for “7 days of Resistance” in the lead-up to Australia Day via their Facebook page, and the suggestions promoted include “interrupting aus day celebrations, paint images words/wording on walls and roads” and “steal and burn aus rags”.
Flag burning should be illegal
IN the lead-up to Australia Day, I'm standing by my push to make acts such as burning the Australian flag at protest events an offence punishable by law.Australia Day is one of those occasions when people proudly fly the flag to celebrate who we are, and that’s just as it should be.In the past though, we have had left-wing protesters burning an Australian flag in a public place as an act which is clearly designed to offend and provoke.Now ahead of Australia Day, we have an artist down south wanting to ‘stoke the fire’ so to speak with this event called ‘Chuck another flag on the barbie’.